I am still fuming over the letter to the editor railing against public education. I am grateful for the excellent public education I received in the '70s and '80s in New York and Florida.

I am disappointed that Allan E. Brown thinks so little of the teachers and students. I’m glad he condescended to tell us his opinion rife with quasi-intellectual claptrap, the essence of which is that public schools suck and the kids who attend are “thugs and criminals in the making,” and the precious private schools are society’s answer to a lack of “Anglo-Saxon” (read white European superiority) and “patriotic” obedience.

Who does he think is serving in our armed forces? Becoming firefighters? Police officers? Teachers?

The backbone of our great nation is built on strong public school education. Instead of working tirelessly to undermine and undercut education spending to prop up an exclusive private school and home-schooling voucher scheme, I submit that Brown should embrace and work to make our schools the envy of the world as they once were when a moon landing was just a dream.

The “moral bankruptcy" is in well-to-do people pontificating about an education system that they are starving of support.

Elizabeth Bardsley


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